Taking action for those jailed over unpaid council tax | Letters

Angela Rafferty QC and 57 others note that significant numbers of people are being unlawfully imprisoned for non-payment of council tax. They think this is likely to be one of the largest mass miscarriages of justice in British historyThe current council tax system is not only “highly regressive” because of its weak links to property values as suggested in Phillip Inman’s article (Report, 20 March). Since council tax replaced the community charge in 1992, thousands of people in